The Alpha Who Saved Me

CHAPTER 117

I've barely gotten a wink of sleep, my mind racing with all the possibilities of what my mother's safe could be holding for me. I go over the letter in my head over and over again, but most of it makes no sense at all. Why would she think that I would be in danger when we never lived in fear before, or maybe they had but hid it well from both my brother and me.

Tossing and turning in my bed, I finally say fuck it and get myself ready for the day at about four thirty in the morning. Ash won't wake up until around seven, so I still have plenty of time to get some work done in the office beforehand. Only, like my sleep, concentration doesn't come easily either, so I give that up as well.

I decide to go down and start on breakfast. I can't fuck that up too much, hopefully. Okay, so the only part of the breakfast that I can possibly make are muffins. It's the only thing that my mother really showed me how to make before the attack. Blueberry and chocolate chip muffins are the only two kinds that I can make, but I'm sure other flavors wouldn't be too difficult. In the end, I stick with what I know and I'm just taking the last batch out of the industrial oven when the kitchen staff comes in.

The three of them stop dead in their tracks, their mouths hanging wide open as they stare back and forth between me and the twenty dozen muffins laying all around as they cool.

Giggling, I place my hands on my hips, "I may not be able to cook but I promise you that the muffins are very edible; go on, try one."

The oldest of the three steps forward and takes a bite of the blueberry one that she chose. I can tell she was ready to hide her face, but then she smiles and covers her mouth when she speaks,

"Luna, they are delicious!"

I shrug, "My mothers were the best and I always worked hard to get them to be as good as here were."

"Well, I don't think she would be disappointed, Luna."

"Thank you! Now, I think I will get out of your way so you ladies can make the real food." I chuckle and toss the apron into the dirty laundry bin before I head upstairs.

there, giving him his morning bath, "Here, let me do it. Go tend to Ayden and I will bring Ash to you when I'm done. Oh, there are muffins down in the kitchen. You may want to grab a couple before the warriors eat them all."

that sounds delicious. Who made them?" She hands me the washcloth that

may

in time to grab any. Maybe. next time." Demi turns quickly and heads

and loved them, so you're missing out!" I call over my shoulder. I know what she's thinking, and I can't really blame her. I've tried multiple

thirty minutes later, I take the steps to the Alpha floor two at a time. Locking the door

crib. My heart is racing with the anticipation of what I'm going to find inside my mother's

chuckle. Examining the box first, I reach up and pull it from its slot in the headboard. Closing the door to the secret slot, I hug the box to my chest as I leave the nursery and lock myself in my own bedroom. The

has kept hidden. As I exhale, I open the box and the first thing that hits me is a familiar scent. Furrowing my brows, I bring the box to my nose and inhale once more. I would know that scent anywhere, and it's one that I miss horribly. I close my eyes and savor breathing in Gavin's

me, though. Why would

mother's secret safe.' Tala says the words that I already

my back and look into something that didn't belong to him?' It's not that I'm mad and I don't think he did t for his own gain, that is not

he find the safe to begin with?'

very smart, Tala. He must have searched for it. Why, is the question that I want to know.'

will find the answer inside the box, Quinn. Go on, look inside.' Tala

this. You're always talking in riddles and telling me that I will know when the

This isn't against the rules to know, but I, as your wolf, could

in this box.' I wait for her answer

She rolls her eyes, 'Will you just open it already? For someone who

what looks like a bunch of documents and